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Functional Discourse Grammar - A Typologically-Based Theory of Language Structure (Paperback, New)
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Functional Discourse Grammar - A Typologically-Based Theory of Language Structure (Paperback, New)
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This book is the first comprehensive presentation of Functional
Discourse Grammar, a new and important theory of language
structure. The authors set out its nature and origins and show how
it relates to contemporary linguistic theory. They demonstrate and
test its explanatory power and descriptive utility against
linguistic facts from over 150 languages across a wide range of
linguistic families.
After a full introduction the book is divided into chapters
concerned with the four levels of grammatical representation -
pragmatic, semantic, morphosyntactic, and phonological - each of
which has its own hierarchical structure. Functional Discourse
Grammar offers a thorough account of how the use and meaning of
language influence linguistic form by conditioning two levels of
formulation which feed into two levels of encoding, all with their
own specific characteristics. The book offers an ideal introduction
to the theory and its applications in typology and description for
scholars in linguistics and related fields from graduate students
upwards.
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